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GUI customization

OEM partners hope to customize the Scale GUI with specific logo. There is a scheme in GUI that still show IBM Spectrum Scale RAID logo on GUI dashboard. We need dev team to cook a total solution that allowing OEM partners to replace their product ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Copy Services Manager - Need active/active or autofailover when HMC connection fails

During a storage migration the Copy Services Manager server lost communication with the DS8886 HMC. The replication status and control was unavailable until the HMC was rebooted. CSM should use both HMCs of the DS8886 and not have a single point o...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Present option for high performance Volume Group Snapshots

IBM i workloads and Epic Cache/Iris each have blueprints and best practices to use 64KB grain sizes for Thin Provisioned volumes and FlashCopy grain sizes. This is done with traditional FlashCopy and mkvdisk commands through the CLI. There are no ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Make reports that are saved into the report folder available via the GUI

Many people don't login to the Control host when accessing Control, it's more common accessed via a web browser. If your environment hasn't been setup for email it makes accessing reports very difficult. Especially when you don’t want regular emai...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

add option to PROTECT STGPOOL TYPE=LOCAL to select the target pool

The definition of a container storage pool allows to specify up to two local protection pools (tape). When the "protect stgpool type=local" command is used to update the local protection pool(s) there is currently no way to have it update only one...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add confirmation question for restart in Administrative Console - System Management

If accidently clicking on the "Restart IBM Spectrum Proctect Plus" it will happen instantly. I think it would be better with a confirmation here instead of using "hot" buttons.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM notify on failure only

SCDM should have an option to send notification emails on job failures only instead of for every result. I don't really need an email for a successful job.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM should support daylight savings time

SCDM should support daylight savings time
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More detailed queue information for SpectrumScale AFM prefetch via the use of a reference ID.

We would like IBM to consider tagging SpectrumScale AFM prefetch requests with a request id such that we can reference the status of a particular request - in particular if there's multiple requests being performed on a single fileset.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

LNET router equivalent for GPFS

Support LNET routers for GPFS to allow GPFS NSD servers to be connected to multiple disparate high speed fabrics without needing to directly place the NSD server on each fabric. Ideally the router would have as little state as possible and there w...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration